Segregated Quotes

To register the ambiguous presence of white folks in a segregated black world -- the way you see them nowhere and feel them everywhere. - August Wilson

They're not seeing the misery in their own families every day. We hide the poor in segregated neighborhoods, so it's easy to lose sight when you're zipping on the expressway every day to your job, then zipping back to the suburbs at night. You're seeing them at reunion time or when somebody calls up for some help. But now it's been made graphic to them. A lot of black people saw black poor people on television like everybody else. - Thaddeus Mathis

They were preparing to start moving the inmates over for breakfast. We had them segregated. The Latino inmates were going to exit and go to breakfast. During that movement, the initial reports indicate that the Latinos began to attack white inmates. - Vernell Crittendon

They say Sunday is the most segregated day of the week. - Janet Davis

They have to be segregated from society to protect society, and get the best kind of treatment we can give them. And we should house them in a way that is humane, recognizing that what they did is different from those who killed for money or out of anger or whatever. - David Haynes

There was no teaching of religion involved. The money was segregated for secular purposes. - Michael Carvin

The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past. - Ed Markey

The most segregated hour is the hour of worship. The civil rights movement came out of the church. I believe that God is trying to get all of his children at one table. - Alfonzo Surrett

The major attraction of personal or private accounts is that they can be constructed to be truly segregated from the unified budget. - Alan Greenspan